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Hi my name's dan from sheffield, i have been lurking around in the forum for a little while, just sizing it up. There's a lot of forums around that are full of idiots and useless information, however this one seems to be a genuinely friendly and helpful resource for people. I maybe wont be one of ...

Have you got any original discs to try booting from win 98 or me or anything? not convinced its more than the drive not reading in dos mode.is it still just flashing cursor on boot up?

to be honest mate kaotix idea is the best solution so far, whip the drive out stick it in your ...

have you got a network card in the notebook and do you have a pc at home too??
if you have you can do a remote network install using your pc. you need to enable boot from network in the bios. try that to start with and well go through the rest.

just a thought do you definately ...

im in.also just introduced myself.
cheers

sounds like your graphics card could either have come loose/bad connection or is on its way out. as for the restarting boot the machine on the windows disk choose recovery console log on to your windows installation then type:
chkdsk /p /r
it will take a

is it the command aps disc you are talking about? The latest merc disc should autorun and install updated software onto the on board computer as well as having updated map info. the maps are by navteq and the disc to purchase from mb is around ?400 (or so im told).
i reckon you probably got a